The Masallacin Eid Store Homeowners and Merchants Affiliation (MEOTA) in Kano State has stated that the state authorities has begun the fee of N1 billion out of the N3 billion agreed to pay to the house owners of outlets, which the federal government of Abba Kabir Yusuf illegally demolished.
That is simply because the MEOTA has stated that no fewer than 30 individuals allegedly misplaced their lives throughout and after the unlawful demolition carried out by the state authorities
Talking on behalf of the MEOTA on Thursday, Barrister Maaruf Muhammed Yakasai, whereas addressing a press convention alongside members of the merchants on the state headquarters of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), disclosed that regardless of the state authorities having began the fee, the MEOTA has petitioned the Kano state police command to analyze the felony facet of it.
He added that in view of the psychological trauma, untold hardship, and premature demise suffered, the MEOTA has determined to put in writing a letter of petition to the Nigeria Police on complaints of alleged felony conspiracy, theft, and felony misappropriation towards that act whereas finishing up the unlawful demotion.
Barrister Yakasai acknowledged that “the fifth day of Might 2023 was the black day for the merchants and house owners of outlets and 1000’s of individuals getting their technique of livelihood within the space.”
He disclosed that “at about 01:00 hours, after all of us closed our outlets and companies, the democratically elected authorities of Kano State, below the management of Abba Kabir Yusuf, with none discover or alternative for our members to pack their items and different movable properties, with no iota of sympathy, demolished the buildings and outlets within the space.”
He added, “Egocentric people with felony minds had been additionally inspired by the federal government to loot our properties because the demolishing was ongoing. They described our hard-earned properties as public properties and declared them free for all.”
Consequently, the suspects succeeded in destroying all of the buildings, outlets, items, and money saved in some outlets, rendering the victims helpless, poor, and jobless with none justification by any means.”
A few of the victims misplaced their lives; some are actually sufferers with completely different diseases, together with the killer ‘stroke’.
The victims’ orphans and kids are left with no parental care and a spotlight; many are rendered homeless; poor or no schooling; and no medical care as a result of breadwinners are both useless or have misplaced their technique of livelihood.
The full estimated worth of the properties misplaced and destroyed is 2 hundred and sixty billion Naira (N260,000,000.00).
‘We all know as a incontrovertible fact that the federal government has the ability to revoke any proper of occupancy, however solely within the overriding public curiosity. Additionally, adequate discover have to be served and compensation paid earlier than the revocation.”
These necessities had been by no means happy by the federal government; no try was made by any means. It’s also towards the Legislation to hold out such an operation in the course of the evening
Dissatisfied with the act of the suspects, our shopper instituted an motion searching for the enforcement of their basic proper to personal property enshrined below Chapter 1V of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) earlier than the Federal Excessive Courtroom in swimsuit No. FHC/CS/208/2023 between the Included Trustees of Masallacin Eid Store Homeowners and Merchants Affiliation and Kano State Authorities & Ors.
He stated the MEOTA has now referred to as on the regulation enforcement company to analyze the felony facet of the act, including that “we, the members of the affiliation, have suffered from psychological trauma on account of the illegal acts of the suspects, both straight or not directly, together with the destruction and lack of their properties price billions of naira that had been stolen, along with the lack of enterprise and technique of livelihood.
It’s towards the above background that we’re interesting to your good workplace to trigger a felony investigation to be performed on this case to make sure that justice is finished for us.
We’re asking your good workplace to conduct a radical felony investigation into the matter, particularly with respect to the offences towards property and humanity, as some have handed on, some are sick on account of the torture, and the wealthy are actually poor.
We’d like the felony facet to be investigated and the responsible to face the complete wrath of the regulation. We additionally urge your good self to contemplate and construct on the judgement of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Kano Division, that described the motion of the suspects as unlawful, unconstitutional, and barbaric.
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